Re: Is My Email Blocked by my Employer???
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Date: Sun, 8 Sep 2002 22:17:38 -0600
"Sophie Borodin" <s_borodin@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Hello,
>
> At my job, we clerical workers have no internet access or even floppy
> disk drives on our computers. I suppose this is to prevent workers
> from bringing in infected disks and also obviously to prevent
> slacking. We do have email, however, and I had subscribed to a couple
> of newsletters to get news updates and stuff. I also have emailed
> myself a few news articles from home to read during downtime (business
> is very slow right now). During the past few days at work, I haven't
> received any of these outside emails, and when I tried to send myself
> another one I got the "undeliverable mail" message "Server received
> Winsock error Connection refused."
>
> Is this the message I'd receive if my outside emails were being
> blocked by my employer? Although they certainly have the right to do
> that, I think it's a bit paranoid because I didn't get that much email
> and what I did get was certainly inocuous. I don't even receive those
> silly "joke" emails that many of my coworkers do. But then morale is
> rather low here and this is a factory. Workers often complain that it
> used to be a much better, "family-type" place to work before they
> expanded overseas. Management has used tactics like promising bonuses
> and then not giving them, so I guess I shouldn't be surprised.
>
> It's odd because no one has said anything to me about my email use,
> and my boss has expressed his satisfaction with my work.
>
> Any insight would be welcome.
>
> Thanks,
> Sophie
Could be a possibility. Talk to your admin and find out what his/her
desires are, and then follow them.
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